The coronavirus pandemic appears to have had more of an effect on the American bitcoin (BTC)-buying community than first thought, per a new survey.
According to a Grayscale-commissioned online survey of 1,000 USA-based general investors aged between 25 and 64 and conducted between June 26 and July 12 this year, 63% of respondents who “had invested in bitcoin within the previous four months (comprising 38% of all Bitcoin investors)” replied that “COVID-19 had impacted their decision” to buy BTC.
When asked if COVID-19 had had an effect on bitcoin’s appeal, almost four in 10 stated that the health crisis has made the token “more appealing,” with just 13% opining that the outbreak had actually diminished BTC’s allure.
The Grayscale report authors added that the findings correlated with similar findings from JPMorgan (reported by Bloomberg) back in August this year, “some retail investors, particularly younger investors, had deployed excess liquidity to bitcoin in response to the pandemic.”
The Grayscale report researchers also found that almost 40% of respondents who expressed an interest in bitcoin considered the token to be a “safe haven investment,” and added that “the single largest age group of people who saw BTC as a safe haven were between the ages of 35-44.”
The authors noted,
